Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Given how famous Xitter is for abusive content and posts being allowed, I seriously doubt that they're doing bugger all to monitor and police AI prompts.

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

Oracle: where projects and budgets go to die.

OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering

They keep on pretending that they have any control over what those statistics monstrosities produce for output, but it's wishful thinking. It's not actually intelligent so it has no idea when it's being abused.

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

Those tools don't have millions of users, though, hence the focus on Grok: footprint.

Who are you kidding? You'll convict them, they'll tie things up in 10-20 years of appeals, and nothing will actually change because Musk is an arrogant and ignorant twat who sees the whole world's wallets as his to fleece.

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

A good idea? Microsoft??!?!?!?!? *BWAHAHAHAHA*

It strikes me that the EU and the rest of the world that "requires" Microsoft as an OS could well decide "enough is enough" and stick a foot in the ground with the Proton 10 API set for Wine and tell Microsoft to take a huge flipping hike with their AI-infested, insecure-by-design-and-being-made-worse-by-AI-authored-"code"-injections core Windows 11 OS...

Well, I'd say that it's about time for a "AntiSquishyOS" to be released by someone somewhere... though it's worth noting that the whole Proton architecture identifies itself as "Windows 10" which is why Microsoft is really forcing everyone onto Windows 11 - they can no longer guarantee their partners that their products won't be running on a system without Microsoft DRM installed and enabled, and Thou Shalt Not Run Without Thine American DRM!!!

This above all else: Thou Art Interfering In Our Grotesquely One-Sided Profiteering Model!!!!

Steam in the meantime will work on a Windows 11 identifying version of Proton, and Microsoft will disable that when it gets too good and too capable and mandate Windows 12.

Lather rinse repeat ad nauseum...

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

If it were possible to actually ban stupid people making stupid "contributions", I'm sure the US wouldn't have the President they do.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

? I don't understand the big deal. I don't use the GMail web interface for anything; I have email clients on different platforms that fetch the email from my gmail account as well as other accounts.

Why would I want to give a web service access to all my data, especially an American Data Hoovering Conglomerate like a Microsoft, Google, or Amazon hosted service?

Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production

Let's face it. About the only claim Musk has come through on is that he would get Drumpf elected...

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them

Despite Drumpf's abject ignorance on the subject, the Americans do NOT rule the world!

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

"Do the impossible and I'll pay you a pittance compared to what I'm making. Thanks for saving my bacon..."

How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates

Tech support: where phone calls go to die.

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong

I have a much simpler theory: tax writeoff. Burning revenue that they'd be taxed on if they don't spend it.

Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls

I read the whole article as trying to tell you "...but if you only spend even more you'll see a return on Artificial Ignorance."

You won't.

It's dead-end technology with a very limited niche set of actual productive and safe uses.

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company

Reminding people every two hours that they aren't dealing with a "human being" is a joke. It only takes 10-15 minutes for some of these scam artists to fleece their victims with "companion AI fees." It's like the old pay-per-minute phone sex lines. Get them on and bill the crap out of them, then pursue them without mercy to pay what is legally a legitimate bill. They "used" your service... they probably didn't expect the hundreds of dollars in fees, though.

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer

It still isn't going to save Intel. Good long-term play for NVidia, though - they acquire a foundry when Intel finishes failing.

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

In essence, LLM systems are only guessing a plausible text response for your query. There is no intelligence, no understanding of your question, no actual thinking going on. So of course the results are pseudo random - they're values generated within the domain of the response to intentionally vary the response.

If you want predetermined and reliable results you're better off with a proper expert system for the domain.

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow

Without true AGI, the bots are a dead end fantasy. And LLMs will never produce true AGI because they don't understand anything - they're just statistics gone mad!

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

The American investor community is notorious for obsessing over bubbles. It has happened time and time again in my 6+ decades on the planet, and it is happening now. And when the bubble bursts, the bankruptcies are rampant and huge. You can count on a significant chunk of corporate America to come to the federal government, cap in hand, pleading "You have to bail us out - we're too big to fail!"

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Let me know when you have hi-res media instead of MP3 "quality" garbage.

Still, I know there will be tens of thousands if not more who will download this piracy archive.

Man, if they ever catch whoever uploaded that, they're toast! The media moguls will go all out to see them drawn and quartered!

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

NETWORK time protocol.

NETWORK.

That means it is inherently UNRELIABLE.

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

Re: But not Phil Collins, sadly

Some of Phil's heart-felt feelings and lyrics would make tremendous changes on the POTUS and his minions if they sank home in the black abyss that passes for a heart in them...

"All these trillions of tarrif dollars flowing in from the gullible fools on the street, boys! Lets do some serious spending..."

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

Sounds like it is leaving all the "heavy lifting" to KDE, which is a shame, because KDE and Gnome with their Wayland-only future focus are show stoppers for me.

I need X-11 protocols for a number of reason, not the least of which is being able to run a remote session on the internet. It's not like anyone provisions home office servers in their living room nowadays - you lease space somewhere, or a machine somewhere, or a VM somewhere. Regardless of how you're hosting, you need remote access.

I don't know what kind of crack or meth the Wayland team has been smoking, but their game performance is half that of the X-11 stack and all but unplayable for half my games, doesn't support DLSS at all, rendering the benefits of my video card moot, and with NVidia repeatedly downplaying the importance of Wayland drivers in their eyes, I don't see that changing any time soon. Like "never."

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

As long as there are multi-billion dollar valuation Artificial Ignorance buyers out there consuming "Mass Quantities", the everyday consumer and lowly SMB provisioner is screwed, even if the rumours of a huge speculative buy of memory is true.

If those rumours are true, let me be the first to nominate the hidden buyer for the firing squad or the guillotine; I'll let them choose their terminal exit option...

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

I don't care about the finer points right now. All this talk of Pasties has me thinking "time for breakie!"

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

You might be surprised some day. :)

I wouldn't help bail them out of the mess they made for any price; let it all burn...

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

Hey, it's win win for Micron - they get to screw over their new Artificial Ignorance customer base while they shaft their existing server and desktop customer base.

It's all good for their bottom line - screw YOUR bottom line!

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

Well, I suppose if you're starting from nothing you'd be "proud" of a 1GHz chip, too, even though that's pretty much useless even for smartphones. Maybe it'd be useful for primitive and crude smart devices, but not anything of any major note...

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

Those are all paper and digital deals that will not come to pass (or at least not be paid for) when this rather obvious stock-pumping bubble goes "Pop" and takes 3/4 of North America with it...

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

This yahoo just can not clue in that he doesn't get to "sidestep" Congress whenever his feeble addled brain gets gas...

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

An electifying story that kept me on the edge of my seat... :)

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

Re: Irrelevant

Lack of experience? Hardly - I'm retired from a 30+ year programming career, and I didn't buy the excuses while I was working and I don't buy them now. Unless you're STUPID enough to buy into Microsoft's frameworks or a LOCKED IN VENDOR, there is no reason your code shouldn't be migrated. Stupidity, laziness, and incompetence are NOT excuses.

Re: Irrelevant

Because I didn't want to go on an evidence-based rant as to why now is the time - people with functional brain cells are well aware of my arguments in support of Linux (especially Debian 13) over Windows 11 on the desktop. Games were the only reason I used to run Windows, and with the release of 24H2 and the latest from Steam/Proton, Linux now runs more games than a "real" Windows system does!

If that can be achhieved, I have no sympathy for your "enterprise apps." You either wrote them and have the source to fix them, or you have a vendor you probably pay hundreds of thousands a year to support said application.

Either way, your argument doesn't wash.

The obvious solution is for everybody to "fix" Microsoft and their Artificial Ignorance invasion by migrating now to a Linux distribution on the desktop. Unlike Windows 11, there are no "hardware requirements" stopping the vast majority of Windows 10 hardware owners from installing Linux. Some oddball systems may need expert assistance, but all that hardware is old enough that it'll be on the major distribution's supported hardware lists for several years now...

New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks

I'm not surprised. It does, after all, have to use JavaScript at some point, and that is prone to bugs like no other language.

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

And then *pop!* goes the bubble and like the banks a few years back, all the "big" companies will claim that they're "too big to fail" and demand government bailouts.

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

Apparently you're just fine with government overreach and abuse of rights as long as you get to watch your sports on TV and eat your McCrapicles while doing so...

I wish him luck and I agree with him, but Der Pumpkin Fuhrer clearly doesn't give a rat's fat patoot about anyone's "rights." Not those of clitizens based on the ICE arrest reports, and certainly not those of immigrants.

Heil Drumpf [/SARCASM]

Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

Silly me - I look for vehicles before crossing the street, and son-of-a-gun if the electric vehicles aren't just as visible to the naked eye as the combustion engine dinosaurs!

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Which AI companies paid for this "opinion piece" to be published? This kind of shilling of proven-broken technology is way beneath The Reg.

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

I'm shocked. Shocked, I telll you.

I mean, Microsoft never has bugs, right? *LOL*

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

Of course, sooner or later, this tech will all standardize to the point where mom and pop businesses can provision their own on-site clusters of such datacenter grade technology. While that certainly will benefit mom and pop, it isn't going to be doing too much for the bottom line of the fabric architects who are currently contributing to those new standards bodies.

Think "Bob's House of Doughnuts NVL72 Compatible SME Data Cabinet" combined with "Sony VAIO GPU Accelerator NVL72 Compatible Interface Card"

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

That will make the evening I burn the sweater all the more delectable a memory. :)

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

Re: x86 versus x86-32

In fact SCO wasn't even available for the 386 until quite some time after it's initial 286-based release. I was involved with beta-testing the QIC tape drivers for the 386 systems on behalf of a financial services company out of Ontario; I believe the IBM PS/2 386 I worked on had a sub-10 serial number... we weren't even sure this new hardware could be made to work for what we wanted to do.

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

Re: Enterprises can't take them seriously...

I would have been able to claim an extra year experience with two or three product launches over the years, as I was involved with the alpha site setups and testing before even the early adopters were going to have access. Ah, the times of youth and glory and absolute naive dedication to my craft and believing that I would be rewarded for diligence...

The one I'm most pleased with of such tools is Java - I was lucky enough to work on a contract with a Big Corporation that had early-access to the Java development images for evaluation purposes. I must admit - even then, Java was surprisingly stable and feature rich compared to the C++ programming environments that were in vogue at the time; I'd already moved beyond the 'C' phase of my career.

So, yes, I worked with Java for six-nine months before the first public release. Too bad I can't even name the corporation 'cause it's all under non-disclosure agreements that don't terminate as long as either party exists. I guarantee you know them.

Less a point of pride was being involved with early alpha testing of drivers for the yet-to-be released 386 version of SCO Unix.

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Libre Office for the win. Total cost: $0. Total value: whatever suckers are paying Microsquishy for having all their data hoovered to feed their Artificial Ignorance fantasies.

When the AI bubble bursts, there may well be a severe reconning among the primary operating systems that are still trusted after such an obsessive venture into unproven territory...